The messiah of Shiraz : : studies in early and middle Babism / / by Denis Martin MacEoin.

The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shiʿism, with the victory of a theological school (Usulism) that stressed the power of the clergy. This is well known. What is less well known is that there was a parallel development of authority in the S...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Iran Studies 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (780 p.)
Notes:Based on author's 1979 thesis.
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